1
Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. anomoto@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
2
Agency for Cooperation in International Health, 4-11-1 Higashi-machi, Kumamoto City, Kumamoto 862-0901, Japan.
One of the major goals of the WHO is elimination of polio, but the nature of rapidly evolving enteroviruses makes this task more complex than it initially appears.